Judges Ok Free Speech Cages At Democrat Convention

• August 7, 2008

The Democrats like to flirt with the hippies and 9/11 truthers, but they don’t want them stinking up their convention. And now they’ve got the law on their side.
And I don’t totally disagree with the ruling or the Democrats on this as the 1st amendment was never intended to make disrupting other people’s free speech and peaceful assemblage legal. Though there’s got to be a more sensitive way to handle this than herding people into cages).
All that being said, however, I have to marvel at the hypocrisy on display here. After all, it was the Democrats who gave Code Pink tickets to heckle the President at his last inauguration. It was the Democrats who gave Cindy Sheehan a ticket to go in and disrupt the State of the Union address. It’s liberal college students all over the country who bum rush/throw pies at conservative speakers who are on stage speaking at their universities.
I guess that sort of thing is all well and good as long as the nuts are targeting people on the right.

Tags: Asshats, Freedom Of Speech, Politics, The Loony Left

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as the 1st amendment was never intended to make disrupting other people’s free speech and peaceful assemblage legal.

On what Constitutional Basis, according to what SCOTUS decision, was that interpretation of the First Amendment promulgated? Since you said the Framers of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights never intended such disruptions, surely you can cite papers of those involved offering sentiments to that effect?

If in a purely political context, I cannot publicly oppose the political policies of a person or organization at the very least in close poximity (hearing range) to the actual event, haven’t my free political speech rights been abrogated? I can see why they cannot interrupt a lawful asembly inside a building or inside the limited grounds of a public arena, because the person or people involved obtained permits for their event; but since it is a purely political event, for the life of me I cannot see the justification in the Bill of Rights for forcing those in opposition to be more than one step outside the building or public arena.

If your interpretation is true, then it must be all or nothing, it must be illegal for any opposing political speech to occur, except wherever the first person or organization demands. I am sorry, I do not agree with your interpretation!

Maybe Bat One can offer me some Constitutional exceptions!
Bat One

Davinski,

25 years ago, the very same thing could be said about today’s “progressives.” Now, according to MoveOn’s Eli Pariser, they own the Democrat party. And if Obama is indeed nominated he will have proved Pariser correct.

Its a measure of just how much farther to the left the Democrats have actually moved in the last several years.
Davinski

You are way off base on this one,Rob.The folks protesting at the Democratic convention have utter contempt for the Dems and Repubs. These are anarchists, socialists, Maoists, etc. They despise them both, and the Dems have no love loss for them, either.
robert108

These are anarchists, socialists, Maoists, etc.

Sounds like today’s Dem Party to me.
soup91

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If I were in a heavy metal band, I think I’d get some footage of the hippies in cages and use it for a video.

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